{"id":30956,"date":"2021-04-15T13:32:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/palau-taiwan-travel-bubble-high-prices-strict-rules"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:32:34","slug":"paradise-cost-high-prices-and-strict-rules-deflate-palau-taiwan-travel-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30956","title":{"rendered":"Paradise cost: high prices and strict rules deflate Palau-Taiwan travel bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan eases restrictions on travellers after bookings fall into single digits and flight is cancelled<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It launched with a presidential escort and the promise of rare international travel to a postcard-perfect tropical island, but the Taiwan-Palau travel bubble has deflated after just a couple weeks, with Taiwanese bookings dwindling to single figures.<\/p>\n<p>Travel agents, consumers and health authorities have blamed the high cost of the tours and the Taiwanese government\u2019s strict rules for returning travellers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/15\/palau-taiwan-travel-bubble-high-prices-strict-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan eases restrictions on travellers after bookings fall into single digits and flight is cancelledSee all our coronavirus coverageIt launched with a presidential escort and the promise of rare international travel to a postcard-perfect tropical isl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,1439,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-palau","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30957,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30956\/revisions\/30957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}